Ballpark

Polo Grounds IV

New York · 1901–1911 · config 1911

Plays even

(+0.0 runs for the away team)

Dimensions

LF 277′ · SLF 377′ · LFA 446′ · LC 446′ · CF 433′ · RC 404′ · RFA 404′ · SRF 348′ · RF 258′

Walls LF 10′ · LC 10′ · CF 8′ · RC 10′ · RF 10′

Pre-fire Polo Grounds — already a bathtub shape

Average foul ground

Capacity 16,000

Already a bathtub — short porches, long thoughts in center.

Overhead diagram

Polo Grounds IV overhead schematicLF 277′SLF 377′LFA 446′LC 446′CF 433′RC 404′RFA 404′SRF 348′RF 258′10′ wall10′ wall8′ wall10′ wall10′ wallAverage foul groundStands not in library

Photograph

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About this park

Polo Grounds IV bridged Manhattan baseball into the bathtub era that followed. Early century, near-neutral in the book, then rebuilt into the legendary V.